...exorbitant smilings of chance." 4 Nor can one suppose that the person whose talk, even as a boy, was " ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind " 5 would be likely to compose 1 The English Novel in, the Time of Shakespeare, London, 1890, p. 234....

...exorbitant smilings of chance." 4 Nor can one suppose that the person whose talk, even as a boy, was " ever of knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind " 5 would be likely to compose 1The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare, London, 1890, p. 234....

...lived with him, and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man: with such staiednesse of mind, lovely, and familiar gravity, as carried grace, and reverence above greater years" (6). Next his tutor, in this case the distinguished continental humanist Hubert Languet, is recalled,...

...'adjured him to be merry'. He was praised, while a child, by Fulke Greville, for being of 'such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace and reverence above greater years'. Sir Philip Sidney's mother was the daughter of John Dudley, the Duke of Northumberland who was beheaded...

...lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man, with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity as carried grace and reverence above greater years. . . ,"42 As a young man he was already a "father" figure dispensing advice; he only experienced youthful...

...lived with him and knew him from a child, yet I never knew him other than a man; with such staidness of mind, lovely and familiar gravity, as carried grace...knowledge, and his very play tending to enrich his mind, so that even his teachers found something in him to observe and learn above that which they had usually...